ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,144, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Programmatic selection of batteries from battery pack" was invented by Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Sudheesh S. Kairali (Kozhikode, India) and Binoy Thomas (Kozhikode, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for selecting a sequence of battery usage in EVs. The method includes identifying a health status of each battery in a battery pack, wherein the health status comprises power availability. The method further includes configuring usage of each battery individually, based on the identified health status of each battery in t...